How to Clone SSD Windows 7 Easily Without Losing Data

How to clone SSD Windows 7?

You’ve probably thought about cloning SSD in Windows 7 without a transit device like a USB or external hard drive. But manual copy & paste is obviously not a safe and quick way - it doesn't apply to hidden files and system files, let alone the relatively low transmission speed.

In this case, the importance of a quick and reliable cloning tool comes to the fore. It shall be able to clone SSD in Windows 7/8/10/11. The operation should be simple enough for an amateur user to master, and there should be rich options to customize the migration until it’s to your satisfaction.

Based on these considerations, I recommend AOMEI Backupper Professional. It supports all Windows OS and has powerful backup and cloning abilities.

With it, you can easily perform disk migration – clone SSD to larger SSD, clone SSD to larger HDD, or clone HDD to smaller SSD in Windows 7.

The Best Software to clone SSD to another SSD

Before performing SSD cloning in Windows 7, there are some things to be done first. Take cloning SSD to a larger SSD as an example, you need to prepare:

If you’ve decided to have a try on the tool AOMEI Backupper Professional, you can quickly clone SSD in Windows 7/8/10/11, etc. with the disk Clone feature.

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• It will clone all the stuff on the current boot drive. If your boot disk was initialized as a master boot record (MBR), it should include a system-reserved partition and system drive. 

• If your SSD uses a GUID Partition Table (GPT) for UEFI booting, it includes partitions like the EFI system, MSR, Windows recovery, and the main system partition.

• If your computer is a factory recovery partition, it allows you to restore your computer to factory default settings. It may be labeled as an OEM partition. Disk clone will also include this recovery partition, so you can also to factory settings on the cloned SSD.

• With the default intelligent mode, you are even allowed to clone a larger drive to a smaller drive (such as clone a larger HDD to a smaller SSD).

• If you only want to clone Windows 7 to SSD without changing other partitions on the old HDD or SSD, then you can use the System Clone feature. 

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Steps to clone SSD in Windows 7 without data loss

Here's an example to clone SSD to larger SSD in Windows 7. This approach also applies to cloning HDD to SSD or SSD to HDD - you just need to specify the source disk and target disk accordingly. 

Simple Steps:

1. Install and launch AOMEI Backupper, select Clone on the left sidebar, and choose Disk Clone.

2. Select your current SSD (the disk you wish to clone) as the source, and click Next.

3. Specify the destination SSD to clone the source disk to, click Next to continue.

4. Optimize the cloning by Edit Partition, SSD Alignment (recommended), or Sector by Sector Clone according to your needs, then confirm all your operations and click Start Clone if nothing is wrong.

◆ SSD Alignment: it’s highly recommended to tick this option if your destination disk is an SSD since it will accelerate the reading and writing speed for solid state drive.
◆ Sector by Sector Clone: ticking this will clone all the sectors no matter whether it’s used or not. Otherwise, it will only copy used sectors intelligently.
◆ Edit Partition: adjust the partition size and drive letter. It's especially helpful when you want to clone smaller SSD to larger SSD.

5. Wait for the cloning to end, and click Finish to exit. 

Then you can restart your PC and launch Windows 7 with the larger SSD. The approach was like restart > get into BIOS with a specific key > set cloned drive as the first boot option > save the settings and exit.

Notes:✎...

The Professional edition supports cloning both data disks and systems disks from MBR to MBR/MBR to GPT, or GPT to GPT/GPT to MBR. If you only want to clone data disks, you can pick the complete free Standard edition.

 After cloning, the destination SSD will be overwritten. You’d better create a backup if there’s any important data on it. Meanwhile, the original drive won’t be wiped out, you can choose to format it or keep it as a secondary storage.

Bonus Tips: Why do you clone SSD in Windows 7?

Cloning an SSD in Windows 7 is a common task for several reasons, including:

Why Choose SSD?

What’s your reason for choosing SSD (Solid State Drive) rather than HDD (Hard Disk Drive)? Is it the high speed of computer booting and data accessing, the low power consumption, or the strong durability? Anyway, you should probably know that these advantages are not gratuitous - SSDs are generally more expensive than HDDs for the same capacity. In other words, you usually only get an SSD with less capacity than an HDD under the same budget.

When you encounter an SSD capacity shortfall in Windows 7/8/10, you can replace the SSD with a larger one, just as replacing the HDD with an SSD for better performance. But if you don't want to lose the data that you've accumulated for so long, an effective SSD cloning solution like AOMEI Backupper Professional is necessary.

Summary

AOMEI Backupper enables you to clone SSD to a larger SSD in Windows 7 as well as other Windows OS without losing data, and with the intelligent cloning mode, you are also allowed to clone a larger drive to a smaller SSD.

Furthermore, AOMEI Backupper is an excellent backup and restore software. Even after the disk migration has been done, you can use it to back up files and folders, partitions, disks, and the system in case of any unwanted data loss and system failures. You can even perform a scheduled automatic backup to protect important data regularly.